Within these pages lurk eighty hitherto unheard-of entities of the imagination, each one vividly described and illustrated. Fourscore Phantasmagores is a compendium of creatures great and small, vile and virtuous, mundane and magical. Creatures of the waters, earth, air, and ether, some sympathetic, others utterly sinister.
Drawing on a diversity of styles and techniques, from the realm of high fantasy and far beyond, artist and writer Rupert Bottenberg conjures up a panoply of preternatural apparitions. It is a rich read for the fantasy aficionado—and a bountiful resource for the role-playing gamer.
Rupert Bottenberg is a visual artist, writer, editor, and teacher, living in Montreal. He is the co-director of the En Masse collaborative art initiative, the programmer of the Axis animation section at the Fantasia International Film Festival, and founder of the Montreal Comix Jams. He is also the former Music Editor of the Montreal Mirror newsweekly (RIP). Bottenberg’s debut book Traumstadtdenken (Éditions Trip, 2012) won that year’s Bédélys Indépendant award. In 2017, Éditions Trip released Traumstadtdenken 2.